Thieves kill woman, decamp with gold, cash

Another woman is undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Anantapur.

Some unidentified thieves attacked two women to snatch gold ornaments in their own houses on Tuesday early morning at NGO Colony in Kadiri leading to the instantaneous death of one of them, while the other woman is undergoing treatment at a private hospital in Anantapur.

Within minutes Shankar Reddy, a teacher, came out of his home for a morning walk (5.10 a.m.), the thieves entered their house and snatched the gold necklace and bangles of his wife Usha Reddy and when she tried to resist, the burglars hit her hard on the head leading to bleeding injuries and instantaneous death.

These burglars then entered the neighbouring house of Ramana, who runs a tea stall in the town. Mr. Ramana too had gone out of the house to open his tea stall, while his son and daughter-in-law were sleeping in one room and his wife in another room. The burglars attacked Ramana’s wife Shivamma and snatched her gold ornaments too. They locked the door of the bedroom, where Ramana’s son was asleep.